​HeliC​am Aerial Media Services, LLC​Atlanta's go to drone company

Feel free to give us a call anytime to discuss your project at 336-339-9205 or email us at info@heliCamHDmedia.com

FAA 333 EXEMPTED WITH MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION WAIVER PART 107 CERTIFICATION LOCAL 600 Our Chief Pilot has almost 30 years experience as a profession Remote Control Helicopter Pilot with the US Team.

​NEWS FLASH: HeliCam, as of June of 2018 has added an Alta 8 to our fleet of heavy lift drones.

Check out this cool Yellow Wood Commercial that we worked on in Atlanta with our Alta 8 and Movi Pro. The camera of choice was of course the Alexa Mini with Prime lenses. There will be other edits released later with some cool river stuff and heavy VFX work.

​​Check out this cool 360 video that we worked on for Airbus Helicopters at the AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys. This was shot with the Insta 360 VR camera. Make sure you choose max resolution. We did the approach shot to the stadium and the one descending into the stadium. Don't forget to click and drag the video to change the view.

Checkout HeliCam's 2018 Car Tracking Reel​

HeliCam is Currently on the Approved Vendors List and Meets the Insurance Requirements for:

Check Out the Trailer for Sony Pictures Feature Film "Venom"HeliCam Was the first to provide Drone LED lighting for a major feature film.

We have added FreeFly's Movi Pro Gimbal to our fleet. Specs on the gimbal can be found HERE. It is shown here in top mount mode on our Alta 8 with our Panasonic AU-EVA1 and Sigma 18-35mm T2 Cine Zoom.

Check out HeliCam's 2017 Demo Reel.​

Check out this cool project for Microsoft that we did at Road Atlanta a couple months ago.​

Here is the behind the scenes.​

We Just finished shooting for the new movie "Bleed" starring Robert Patrick and several of the cast members from the hit TV series "Prison Break", including Robert Knepper. Super nice people and cast. Side note: Mr. Patrick is not nearly as intimidating in person as he was in the movie "Judgement Day" from the Terminator Series. Below is a crappy picture of a scene where they sent a bus off a cliff. That was fun to shoot.

We recently finished shooting the final three episodes for the TV Series "Turn Washington Spies" for season 4 which airs in May on AMC.

​Well we had to fly this bad boy (below) on the set of "Love Simon" the other week for Twentieth Century Fox.

What to Look for When Hiring a Drone Company

Hiring a drone rental company doesn't have to be a complicated process, but there are a ton of people trying to pass themselves off as drone professionals claiming decades of "combined experience" and you have to weed your way through them. Multirotors or drones as they are now commonly called are, for the most part easy to fly. I can't count how many times I have heard people say, even very experienced operators: Drones are easy to fly, you don't need ex professional R/C (remote control) pilots to do high level aerial filming anymore. To do basic filming...no. To do it safely and be able to handle emergency situations in the event of an equipment failure, absolutely you need someone with a lot of experience. To do complicated shots, long distance shots, shots where the drone is going to be hard to see because of mountains in the background, high speed at very low altitude shots, operating near obstacles and Talent; you can't have a drone pilot and camera mount operator with too much experience. We have done work for a lot of production companies that have used drone rental companies that claimed "decades of combined experience", but they weren't able to get the shots that production needed or they wound up crashing on set causing major safety issues. We also loose a lot of work to drone rental companies who will do work for really cheap rates and again production, nine times out of ten, doesn't get what they need and they wind up wasting time and money. When it comes to drone rental companies, you really do get what you pay for. Drone services companies that have been around for years should have several demo reels and finished client projects on their site for you to view. If not move on. Chances are if they don't have a shot very similar to what you need for your production, they probably can't get that shot safely if they can even get it period. They should have a back up drone and camera mount as these things are mostly electronic and things will fail occasionally. Do they have their FAA 333 Exemption or Part 107. If they do not have either of these their insurance, if they have any is totally useless. Regarding insurance, if the PIC (Pilot in command) does anything illegal with the drone and something happens, their insurance is null and void. There are a lot of operators doing a lot of illegal stuff with drones. Hopefully this info will help some of you wishing to hire a drone rental company.

Check out this Audi spot that we created. The footage was shot in the Florida Keys. ​

​In late November we were in the FL Keys on another Audi shoot.

In May HeliCam shot some aerial video with our drones for a new TV Series for FX Network starring Donald Glover, Danny Glover's son, called Atlanta.

​In August HeliCam worked on a new TV Series called "Ink, Paper, Scissors" which featured Atlanta's Salon Ramsey and will air on BET.

In September HeliCam was fortunate to get to do some drone aerial video on a really cool Audi shoot in Charlotte, NC and Atlanta, GA with a bunch of great people. My camera man and I offered to forego our normal day rates for a couple Audi R8s, but we never heard back on our proposition. ​

In early July HeliCam got the opportunity to fly the new Nokia Ozo VR camera. What an impressive piece of equipment. I am currently working on a new camera mount system to maximize the potential of the Ozo. Last year we flew a GoPro based VR rig that was customized to work with the DJI Ronin gimbal in Maui, HI. Things have come a long way since then. It is amazing that the video stream from all eight cameras are written to one memory card. I can't say enough about Able Cine as well. They sent the Ozo Tech Ben out to make sure that we got the most from the Ozo.

To watch the videos in full screen mode simply click on the video to get it started playing and then double click on the video. Once in full screen mode you can choose to watch it at YouTube if you like.​

HELICAM'S PHILOSOPHY IS SIMPLE

Create the highest quality aerial video and photos possible while operating in a safe manner. If HeliCam does it's job to their full potential, the Client will be ecstatic at the end of the shoot and that, to us, is what makes the years of learning and growing to try and perfect our craft worth while. Working this philosophy has gotten HeliCam a ton of referrals and repeat business, which is great advertising.